google news india - Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi wins Varanasi by the shortest margin

 

According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday defeated Congress's Ajay Rai from the Varanasi seat. This is his third consecutive win from this seat.

But since he initially won the seat in 2014, it is the shortest margin of victory. According to Election Commission data, he won the seat by a margin of 152,513 votes.

 

Modi defeated Rai by a margin of 479,000 votes in 2019 with 674,664 votes. He won by a margin of 372,000 votes in 2014. He then defeated his main rival Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal. Ajay Rai was at the third number.

 

Rai narrowed the gap this year, polling 460,457 votes against PM Modi's 612,970.

BJP officials were claiming that PM Modi's win margin will set a new record this time.

With PM Modi's victory, the BJP has now won the Varanasi seat every time since 1991, with the exception of 2004, when Congress Party's Rajesh Mishra defeated BJP's Shankar Prasad Jaiswal by 57,436 votes.

 

 

 

Apart from this, this will be the first time when PM Modi's party is behind the majority.

5:30 p.m. Till then, the India Bloc—which was formed to counter the BJP's juggernaut—was ahead in 236 seats, surprising pollsters. Congress alone was ahead with 99 members, which was significantly higher than the 52 seats it got in 2019.

The Samajwadi Party won 38 seats in Uttar Pradesh, significantly increasing the strength of the Bharat faction.

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